Cool Websites and Tools [February 27th 2013]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here.

Chroma – Web developers and graphic designers often experiment with different shades of the same color. One way to get different shades of the same color would be to add different quantities of black and / or white into the color to make it darker or brighter. But a far easier approach would be to use a helpful tool called Chroma. Read more: Chroma: An App That Shows You All Shades Of Colors [Chrome]

Talk to Type – Numerous websites have text boxes in them for you to type text in them. For short text inputs, typing is a convenient option to input text but for longer texts, you might want to consider a speech-to-text option. “Talk to Type” is a browser tool that lets you add text onto webpage via talking into your microphone. Read more: Talk to Type: Use Speech To Enter Text Into Textboxes On Websites [Chrome]

SmartAsset – Today figuring out how to buy a house is not as easy as it used to be. There are numerous options you need to consider before you make any major financial decision and the more help you can get, the better. Here to add to the list of things that can greatly help homebuyers in their purchasing decision is an online app called SmartAsset. Read more: SmartAsset: An Online Tool To Help You Make Better Financial Decisions

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Anonymous

Trevor

February 28, 2013

How sad and hopeless it should be, if one needs to go to “Emergency Compliment” and pat him/herself on the back by reading a computer-generated message. Never thought of such “creative” use of computers.